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Bill	State facilities and public buildings: vote centers and polling places.	Existing law, the California Voter's Choice Act, authorizes certain counties to conduct any election, after a specified date, as an all-mailed ballot election if certain conditions are satisfied, including conditions related to ballot dropoff locations, vote centers, and plans for the administration of all-mailed ballot elections.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2540	California AB 2540 (20172018)	bill	State facilities and public buildings: vote centers and polling places.	enacted	Mullin	6	23	5	2018-02-14	2018-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/f5360f00-5f7c-43ed-aca1-d4dcfd33abe8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2540	338fe635b95be433594c2d25968240eede58ba5a246743eb7da402b778671613	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2540 (20172018) — State facilities and public buildings: vote centers and polling places.

Existing law, the California Voter's Choice Act, authorizes certain counties to conduct any election, after a specified date, as an all-mailed ballot election if certain conditions are satisfied, including conditions related to ballot dropoff locations, vote centers, and plans for the administration of all-mailed ballot elections.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/11/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2540 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2540 MULLIN Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2540 Mullin By Allen — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mullin — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2018-03-15 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2018-03-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-04-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5514.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5802.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 343, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5360f00-5f7c-43ed-aca1-d4dcfd33abe8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).